Technology as an observing system : a 2nd order cybernetics approach [PDF]
The role of technology in modern society is becoming fundamental to society itself as the boundary between technological utilization and technological interference narrows.
Demetis, Dionysios
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The article copes with two major notions of Christian philosophy “hypostasis“ and “icon“ which importance have increased for the last decades of continental philosophy. The author exercises how the first notion gives rise to the meaning of second one, the icon, by the work of St. John of Damascus on ontology of hypostases. In the report is claimed that
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A Participatory Universe of J. A. Wheeler as an Intentional Correlate of Embodied Subjects and an Example of Purposiveness in Physics [PDF]
This paper investigates the role of human subjectivity and its delimiters in articulating the universe in physics and cosmology. As a case study, we reflect upon the complex of ideas of the so called Participatory Universe by later J. A. Wheeler.
Nesteruk, Alexei V.
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Platonism in Lotze and Frege Between Psyschologism and Hypostasis [PDF]
In the section “Validity and Existence in Logik, Book III,” I explain Lotze’s famous distinction between existence and validity in Book III of Logik.
Stang, Nicholas
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Cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure: from the case to review of literature [PDF]
In response to an increased workload due to physiological or pathological stimuli, the heart may undergo a process of growth with increased muscle mass called cardiac hypertrophy. It is a particular mechanism of long term compensation used by the heart
Massoni, Francesco +4 more
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Proclusean concept of Hypostasis
This article is a clarification of Proclus conceptualization of hypostasis. In other words, it is the clarification of the concept upon which Proclus builds his cosmological system. Proclus conceptual articulation of reality is drawn based on hierarchical grades, which is called hypostasis.
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Augustine’s Use of Neoplatonism in Confessions VII: A Response to Peter King [PDF]
A modified version of Michael Gorman's comments on Peter King’s paper at the 2004 Henle Conference. Above all, an account of Augustine’s purposes in discussing Neoplatonism in Confessions VII, showing why Augustine does not tell us certain things we ...
Gorman, Michael
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Book Review: A Brief History of the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church (Franz Dunzl) [PDF]
Franz Dünzl has produced a concise and clear presentation of the Early Church’s struggle for truth. Today, the doctrine of the Trinity is subject to various hermeneutical explanations to make it accessible.
Morrison, Glenn J
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One-, Two-dimensional Model of Personal Identity and Personal Being, as an Accumulator of “Zombies” Ontology (Regressive Tendency of Combining a Living Body and a Corpse Within a Semantic Field of the “Body” Concept in 19 European Languages and in All Hie [PDF]
The aim of research is revealing the correlation of one-, two-dimensional models of personal identity and the ontology of a dead body without signs of consciousness (“zombies”). Research methods are hermeneutic and systemic structural.
Nikolov, N. (Nikita)
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